Duplicate words | uniq\sort?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote:

> I have 554 words in the following file one word per line.
> Some words are repeated up to 3 times.
>
> words.list
>
> If I try "cat words.list | uniq -u"
> It dumps all repeated words, I need one copy of all words.
>
> uniq words.list > uniq.list
> Words are still duplicated.
>
> sort words.list | uniq
> leaves about 20 words total
> which I feel is wrong as
> cat words.list | uniq -c
> shows about 100 non-dupe words
>
> Haven't much success with sort either.

  sort -u?

rday

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